I'm beginning to learn what hard work means...

Hello Everyone!


How is Everyone? Happy and NOT melting i hope

This last week has been yet another Huge adventure! this week we didnt have a whole lot going on so we knew we had to make it happen. We worked SO hard, and with a shower of blessings we were able to find 11 new people to teach! in just one week! We were really SO blessed . We met alot of Really cool new people that have only been in Hong Kong for a short time, and facing their situations they are all incredibly humble. I heard one thing over and over again this week that i thought was SO special... nearly everyone that we talked to, at the end of the lesson would say something like "I think God has brought me here, because he loves me, and knows i need his help, and this is how he will help me""this is an answer to my prayers". The people that we were led to meet, or were led to meet us this week, have really been prepared to hear this message. and they are willing to Act on it. This week i have seen an amazing example of Faith in so many people. I feel confident in saying that in just this one week I have learned more about Humility and Faith than ever before, I can only hope to have the humility, faith, and trust that some of these people I met have one day.

I feel like im starting to learn what hard work really means, and I am SO so tired... it feels really good.

Sorry for just a short message today. Thank You all for Your support for me. You are always in my prayers.

Love,

Elder Mckay Wright

I am SO blessed to serve in this mission

Hello Everyone!!!

What a week! How was yours? Fast!? Hot? Really tough? Worth it? Same here!!!!!!  Other than being working like a horse... on steroids, in heat that made me feel like I was about to have a heat stroke about every single day. This week was really good! Actually I have a lot to talk about!!! I will start on Tuesday last week. We had Mission Tour (Kind of like a conference/missionary meeting deal)! Can I just express how lucky I feel to be a part of the China Hong Kong Mission? I don’t think words would ever get even close to describing. We had half the mission together and Presiding, and teaching, at the meeting was Elder Watson, and Elder Gong, members of the Quorum of the Seventy, along with Elder Wong, a member of the Area Seventy, and of Course our Mission President Chan. President Chan did a sharing about unity for the whole mission, and tied it in with goals. He told us to be unified like his piece of paper... then he took out an apple and gave it to a missionary and asked "... is it real?" like a magician... SO FUNNY! ... It was, and then he took it and forcefully put the piece of paper THROUGH the apple!!! ... Whoa. Yes we were shocked, and I’m sure no one will ever forget that sharing! I know I Wont! President Chan is so powerful, and one of the greatest examples in my life. Then, Later Elder Watson got up to share and says " in the spirit of revelation, I've  decided how I want to conduct this meeting... we will have some of You missionaries share a short 3 minute experience or testimony.." as he pulls out a bowl with pieces of paper with all our names on it...  so cool! Then He taught us about the Book of Mormon, and how to use it in teaching. SO amazing, this week in lessons I have really tried to use what he taught us and, it really helped a lot! I’m sure the whole mission is using the Book of Mormon more effectively and powerfully. I know what he taught made a difference to this missionary. We had a question and answer period that was really good too. It really seems like they can answer everything perfectly. I am SO blessed to serve in this mission, I can’t even begin to describe, I’m sure that now I really don’t comprehend it anyway, but I feel SO blessed, and SO grateful for all the experiences that I am having out here, especially ones like that. FUNNY STORY! The other day Elder Lee and I walk into Wan chai... to see Elder Watson... hiding behind a pillar... he motioned to be quiet by putting his finger to his mouth... I was curious... but somehow acted like I was ignoring the fact that a seventy was hiding behind a pole, to my later discovery that his wife was actually walking out and he wanted to give her a little scare... HAHAHA! So. Awesome!

Wednesday we went out and worked hard all day long... no success. SO we realized what we were lacking, and Thursday we went out and worked our hardest... AND prayed our hardest. Having set a goal in my mind, and personal prayer, that I was going to do whatever it takes to talk to someone who would be touched by our message of a Modern Day Prophet and the Book of Mormon... I really "Searched"... that day to me seriously seemed like it was beyond finding. It took a little while, but then I saw someone that looked like they were waiting for someone to talk to them, she was pretty far away. I walked straight over there and I did my best to try to contact her, with no result, but she was still there. I had the strongest feeling in my Heart that I had to talk to her and that she needed to hear this message, I tried again... FAIL!... I didn’t know what to do and that feeling wouldn’t go away... so I quickly slipped around a little corner and said a Prayer... after I said my prayer and was determined this time that she would listen (because that feeling was still there) I had another strong feeling to find a member... right as I turned around the corner I saw a Member walk up who said "Sorry I’m late I’m here to help!"... Besides being blown away by how perfect that timing was... we took her over to the other Filipina sister (Jocelyn) and introduced her to the member. After just a few minutes of chatting (in Tagalog) she said she would come to the church!  So we showed her around... and then took her to a classroom to share the Restoration. She seemed okay the whole lesson, then we taught Joseph Smith and she seemed pretty confused... we tried to stop and ask questions... then after a minute decided to share about the Book of Mormon and Invite her to read it... When she saw the Book of Mormon and we explained what it is... she told us she wanted the book (kind of teary eyed) and then she asked if she had to buy it...  We gave it to her and she hugged it and wouldn’t let it go for the rest of the time that day at church. Now! We have been in contact with her every day and she is so excited to come back! 

On Friday and Saturday I went on an Exchange into Chinese work and had a lot of fun working with Elder Maddux that is just a move or two Younger than me. He is a Great missionary and I’ve learned a lot from him too! Sunday we taught Letty again, Her son is on a Mission in Philippines and she wrote him this week telling him that she will be Baptized on the 21st! Yay! So, we had to speed things up a bit because we weren’t quite expecting it... but she knew it all from some personal study and is ready for Baptism this coming Sunday! THAT was Fast!!!

This week, on Sunday, I met a Man named Micker, he is from West Africa (in Libya), I had been contacting him all week on the phone, because Elder Dodd in Yuen Long saw him come to the church up there... but Yuen Long is only Chinese, So he sent him to us... I don’t have much time so I will have to write His touching story (Seriously... I couldn’t hold my tears when I was talking to this guy...) next week. He is SO awesome and doing all he can to follow Jesus Christ and he knows that this is the Place that he needs to do it. He had some pretty incredible things happen to him. I want to help him in any way I can.

Thank you all again for Your love and support! Thank You for the Prayers! I love You all! and You will always be in my Prayers as well!

Love

Elder Mckay Wright

We were working out tails off and weren’t seeing any success... until!!!

Hello Everyone!!!


How are you? How was your week? How is the Weather? I hope You aren’t all melting ( even though I’m sure you are) like I am here... It is SO stinking hot!!!... agh... ha-ha its pretty funny, it’s so hot outside that after a minute or two I’m already sweating profusely... then I get in the church or some other well air conditioned building, and in a minute or two... I’m shivering!!! Because I’m soaking wet!... yes,... that is pretty gross, and I’m sorry I went into so much detail... On to this week’s news!!!

So this was the first full week of Elder Lee and I being together, it was pretty good! :) He is a good missionary and a really hard worker. We have a lot of fun too. The whole week we were working out tails off and weren’t seeing any success... until!!! Saturday! We realized that we had our faith tested all week,... and on Saturday, started to see the Blessings Flow! We went out finding in the morning... and in about 45 minutes, we found 4 People that were all willing to come to church with us!!! When we got to the church and taught them... They are All SO prepared!!! They were all crying after the lesson and the Prayer... and then we watched the Joseph Smith video... and they were all in tears. Over the last day or two they have been texting us just about nonstop telling us how excited they are to come back to church!... Miracles are real! We were praying hard all week for that. It was a very humbling experience to me, and a great testimony builder.

That was Great... but actually the main thing I wanted to talk about today was about a Baptism that we had on Wednesday. Basically, I only knew her name was Elvie,... and that’s about all I knew about her... Until!!! I saw her! She looked SO familiar!!!... And she knew me!? I couldn’t remember where I had seen her before.
We went through with the Baptism and then during the meeting after when she was sharing her testimony, I found out where I knew her from!!! She was telling a story about how she was a member of another church, but never really agreed too much with them, and she had investigated many different churches. After searching and searching she had given up, and some other things had led her to not ever even want to go to church.

Then she moved to Hong Kong. She planned never to go to church. After about three months of being in Hong Kong, she had some things she had to take care of at Hong Kong immigration tower. She was walking on the bridge and was a little lost. She saw another Filipina and asked her where to go, the Filipina told her but said "Wait! I want you to meet my friend first" ... turns out... that Filipina was a member, and she walked Elvie over a few feet and said "Elder Wright! Meet my new friend Elvie!!!" and I talked to her, took her to church and taught her!!! I forgot because I actually had to hand her over to Elder Dodd and Elder Lee... Then! I moved here! And I saw her get Baptized!!! Awesome! :) She talked about how she was determined not to look into any other churches, but when she came in our Church and heard the message, she forgot all those feelings of doubt and confusion, She knew this was the truth. It makes me think of the scriptures where it talks about God's "Sheep"... and how he knows them, and they know "His voice"... It is such a testimony to me to see these things. To see the faithfulness of these people is something that is incredible to me, and anyone else who knows these sisters.

Serving in International is such a blessing! Serving a Mission is such a blessing! I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and I love to share it.

That is everything for this Week! Thank You all for your prayers and your support!!! I love all of You! You are in my prayers as well!

New Area, New Companion.... and trying to focus... Again

Hello Everyone!!!


Another Interesting week in the Fragrant Bay... ... Really interesting though!!! In all honesty this week was a little disappointing... but I trust that everything will turn out for the best . This week was transfers week, and against all odds... i actually moved areas!!! Now im serving in the Kwai Fong Branch!!! Still international, but different area. It is a pretty cool branch and I really like it, but it was a little disappointing, because this week I had 4 investigators get Baptized over the weekend (Hanna, Beth, May, Shai (extra sad I missed)... and I wasn’t there to see any of them... ... it was a pretty bummer deal... not to mention the 4 more or my old investigators that will be baptized in the coming 2 weeks... ... But it’s OK!!! I’ll get over it!!!... Eventually!... Now I’m left in an area that will need a lot of building for the next while, me and my New companion will have our work cut out for us. Speaking of my new Companion! His name is Elder Lee!!! He is from... (get this ) SPRINGVILLE!!! AND! He is in Levi's Ward!!! What are the chances of that!?!?! He is a really good guy and I’m already learning a lot from him.


I actually don’t know much more of what to say about this week... I’m just trying to Re-focus…. again. I’m actually not a really big fan of moving areas... but now I’ve had 9... When most people serve 4 or 5... So... I’m sure there is a lesson that needs to be learned in here somewhere... I’ll figure it out sooner or later... hopefully sooner rather than later...Ii realized not too long ago, I have less than a year... actually... quite significantly less... and that’s no good at all!!! I need to figure this out fast!!! Luckily I feel like a learn more every day.


Anyway... I’m very sorry I don’t have much to talk about this week... I don’t even know any of my own investigators yet!!! This week was a tough change, and honestly... there aren’t that many investigators to meet! ... But everything will be good, and I’ll be Praying for Miracles every minute... Hopefully I’ll have some things to talk about next week!


Thank You all for your love, your support, and Your prayers!!! I love you all and you are always in my prayers!!!






Elder Mckay Wright